US, China to Discuss AI Guardrails at Summit Without Slowing Development Race

President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump will meet on September 25, 2026, to discuss artificial intelligence safety, with both sides signaling no intention to slow AI development despite growing debate over existential risks. The US Treasury proposed an emergency hotline for AI incidents and a bilateral dialogue mechanism during a September 20 meeting in New York. Neither Washington nor Beijing supports binding speed limits on AI, favoring narrow guardrails instead. Alibaba announced plans for a 10-trillion-parameter AI model, domestic AI chips and a 20-gigawatt data center buildout. Huawei accelerated high-powered AI chip debuts aimed at replacing Nvidia processors, while Moonshot and Z.AI expand open-weight models globally. China's cyberspace regulators are investigating potential data breaches at Moonshot and DeepSeek. Analysts cite cybersecurity and biological weapons as areas of emerging consensus, though deep mutual distrust limits cooperation.